Iraq war vote scheduled by Baptists

[Nambe]

Houston Chronicle(Reg req.)

HOUSTON- America should get out of Iraq, which a Baptist group says was a military campaign begun under false pretenses. ..

.. About 6,000 delegates in Houston for the denomination's annual meeting were scheduled to vote Thursday on a resolution calling for immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, said the Rev. Major L. Jemison of Oklahoma City.

"Our nation is still burdened with the spoils and rough tirades from the smell of a war that was presented to us under false pretenses," Jemison, the convention's president, said Wednesday. "Our boys and girls are being upended as we send them out to defend a war that is seemingly pointless and endless."

The Baptist Convention represents more than 1,100 black churches and grew out of the civil rights movement. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was scheduled Thursday to address the convention's annual meeting. It continues through Friday at the George R. Brown Convention Center. ..

[physioex]

1. Sorry to be cynical....

But the black churchs don't have the same political clout as the Southern Baptists and the likes of Falwell and Robertson. I applaud the actions of the Black Church, but in the end Shrub is trying to shore up his base and isn't too worried about what they have to say...

[Moderator]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x729568